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The Best RPC Ping List

// July 17th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Business Blog Website, Online Promotion

For those who don’t know what this is – it is very important for you to utilize this in your WordPress Blog.  The RPC Ping list lets blog syndication services know when you have a new article on your blog.

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Effective Internet Marketing You Can Do Yourself For Free!

// July 11th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Local Business Solutions, Online Promotion, Social Media for Business

A Few Types of Free Internet Advertising

imageInternet advertising, particularly the free kind, still requires a considerable investment – primarily of time.  Also it will definitely go a lot better for you if you have business graphics in place already, logos, flyers, ads, as these can be utilized in just about every type of free online marketing.

Benefits of Free Online Marketing

Obviously growing your business is the main objective.  With that in mind, these types of internet marketing all create SEO opportunities, primarily if ingrain your advertising with your keywords and, secondly, with links back to your website.  Visit this other blog of ours for more clarification on SEO Basics, and here is a link to Google’s Free Keyword Research Tool.  Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, each of these forms of online advertising allow you to step in front of an audience as the majority of these websites are trafficked routinely by a set of people, each we consider a community.

The types of free internet promotion we cover in this article are:

  • Classified Ad Running
  • Internet Phone Book Listings
  • Free Hosted Blogs
  • Social Networking Sites and
  • Free Websites on Hosted Domains

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Free Web Design Tools

// June 18th, 2009 // No Comments » // Local Business Solutions, Online Promotion, Social Media for Business

This post is built to list free web design tools that allow you to build and host websites.  From a professional perspective it is often important to host on your own domain.  When I revise this article I will include the cost involved and whether the options is available.

http://www.weebly.com/ – Simple free websites

http://speaklight.com – More powerful free websites 

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The 3/50 Project – What if we spent more locally?

// June 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // Local Business Solutions

What a great project – make sure to read about this and involve yourself.  Simply put, what if we all made a very minor effort to divert a few dollars of our spending to locally owned companies?

The 3/50 Project

Facebook Pages – The Way To Market

// June 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // Social Media for Business

Check it out!  It looks as though Facebook pages have some value after all!  They can achieve rank themselves.  This matched with the vanity URL’s coming out Friday definitely add value.  Contact Taylor Ellwood at Imagine Your Reality for help on social media website strategy and service if you don’t have time to do it yourself.

Make sure to check out this article to read more on Facebook Page Strategy!

Social Business Internet Marketing Strategy

// April 24th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Social Media for Business

Presentation Notes by Charles Montgomery for I Take The Lead Members

Business Benefits of Social Media Marketing

- Another Website for Web Presence – places to come across you…

- Another Website for Search Engine Presence – When someone searches on your business name – what comes up?

- Business Hub – Links to all of your other sites

- Generate Traffic

- Connect with Current Clients

- Connect with Professional Peers

- Promote Services / Products

- Disseminate Information and Uses for your Promote Services / Products

- Promote Your Business Specials

According to Lloyd Salmons, first chairman of the Internet Advertising Bureau, “Social media isn’t just about big networks like Facebook and MySpace, it’s about brands having conversations.”

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Business Blog Website – WordPress Workshop

// April 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Business Blog Website, Business Wordpress Workshop

Build a website in a day, plus learn how to update it!  We are providing room for up to 1 guest per attendee, so bring your best technical advisor to learn with you!

Package Includes:

-          1 Year Web Site Hosting

-          Info@ and YourName@ Email Addresses

-          Custom WordPress Theme Installation

-          Theme Customizations

-          Website Plugins

-          Prerequisite Consultation

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Effective Ways to Promote Your Business Online FOR FREE!

// April 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // Online Promotion

Free Business Profiles Available on Appropriate Sites

-          Yellowpages.com | Citysearch | Google Maps

-          Send me an email to request links directly to the “post your business page” on the BEST Internet Phone Book Directory Websites.

 

Blog Comments

-          On quality blogs, leave quality comments

 

Forums

-          Request list of high PR Forums and Article Submission Sites

 

 

Article Posting

-          Request list of high PR Forums and Article Submission Sites 

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